Issue 188 November 13th 2024

Justin Grammens

Welcome Applied AI Weekly Readers to the latest issue! I'm thrilled to once again share with you the most interesting articles I've found this past week on Artificial Intelligence. I've been building up a sizable list of articles and have decided to empty the tank and pack this issue full with more than 20 articles over the past few weeks.

Before we go there, here are a few things I wish to share.

Upcoming Events

The Fall Applied AI Conference is scheduled for Nov 15th, and only a few tickets are left. THIS WILL SELL OUT - so hurry and get your tickets today!
I'm leading ongoing workshops and study clubs as part of my AI Innovation Lab. I'm studying both Retrieval Augmented Generation and Agentic AI at these sessions. Interested in learning more and joining us? Read the details and register.

A Bit of Thanks

I was on an industry panel last weekend at CADSCOM 2024. Huge thanks to Rajeev Bukralia and all the other organizers for bringing this event together. What an awesome experience for the students, faculty, and industry to collaborate and share their experiences!
I spoke last week at the Midwest Architecture Community Collaboration Conference ( MACC ). My session was on Empowering Engineering Teams with Large Language Models It was an awesome experience and I will be attending (and hopefully speaking again) next year!
I spoke last month on Artificial Intelligence to more than 60 people at the City of Lake Rotary Club. What an amazing experience! Thank you to everyone who attended. Great conversations and questions during and after the event. I love sharing how AI can help your business and career!
I had an amazing time speaking at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice on Sept 11th. I'm extremely blessed to have been asked to come to Austin, TX, and share my thoughts on how Artificial Intelligence is already impacting Home Care & Hospice!
I completed two speaking sessions at the Midwest Health Promotion Conference on Wednesday, September 25th. The theme this year is Memories, Milestones, Momentum. Thank you to everyone who attended and all the diligent work that was done by the conference organizers
I'm continuing to offer free consultations and workshops with many business leaders on how AI is changing the landscape of how you will run your business today and into the future. Connect today and book a meeting with me.

Now that we have that covered, please enjoy the articles that I have spent time finding and curating for you this past week. Be sure to listen to the interview at the very end of this issue. It was a great discussion with Liam McCoy, a resident physician in neurology at the University of Alberta.

Finally, please do reach out if there's anything you feel I might have missed. Enjoy!

News

AI Overwhelmingly Prefers White and Male Job Candidates in New Test of Resume-Screening Bias

The UW researchers tested three open-source, large language models (LLMs) and found they favored resumes from white-associated names 85% of the time, and female-associated names 11% of the time. Over the 3 million job, race, and gender combinations tested, Black men fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.

More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI

Google is building a bunch of AI products, and it’s using AI quite a bit as part of building those products, too. “More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers,” CEO Sundar Pichai said on the company’s third quarter 2024 earnings call. It’s a big milestone that marks just how important AI is to the company.

Introducing ChatGPT Search

ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before. You can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, which you would have previously needed to go to a search engine for. This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes, and more.

ChatGPT will choose to search the web based on what you ask, or you can manually choose to search by clicking the web search icon.

MIT Debuts a Large Language Model-Inspired Method for Teaching Robots New Skills

MIT this week showcased a new model for training robots. Rather than the standard set of focused data used to teach robots new tasks, the method goes big, mimicking the massive troves of information used to train large language models (LLMs).

Polaris Dawn

As soon as the fourth quarter of 2022, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Polaris Dawn mission from historic Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Meta’s AI Abundance

Stratechery has benefited from a Meta cheat code since its inception: wait for investors to panic, the stock to drop, and write an article that says Meta is fine — better than fine even — and sit back and watch the take be proven correct. Notable examples include 2013’s post-IPO swoon, the 2018 Stories swoon, and most recently, the 2022 TikTok/Reels swoon (if you want a bonus, I was optimistic during the 2020 COVID swoon too):

Apple's Commitment to AI Is Clear, But Its Execution Is Uneven

The day has finally arrived. iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1 are all out and include Apple’s first major foray into the world of artificial intelligence. Of course, Apple is no stranger to AI and machine learning, but it became the narrative that the company was behind on AI because it didn’t market any

Breakout Agentic Apps

Dive into the stories of companies pushing the boundaries of AI agents. Learn "why" and "how" they made specific architecture, UX, prompt engineering, and evaluation choices for high-impact results.

LangChain's Second Birthday

Reflections on how LangChain has evolved — including our products, ecosystem, and community — over the past two years, and where we're headed next.

Will.i.am Talks AI in Music, Business and Life

Will.i.am made part of his fortune as a musician, producer and collaborator with the likes of former Black Eyed Peas member Fergie, as well as Britney Spears, Kendrick Lamar, Miley Cyrus and Rhianna. His AI company, Raidio.FYI, which uses generative AI to create customized two-way interactions and entertainment programming between the app's AI personas and users, aggregates creative content and works as a collaboration tool. He's also a regular Dreamforce presenter and was interviewed by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on stage in September.

OpenAI, the Fast-Growing Company Behind ChatGPT, Has Examined a Range of Options to Diversify Chip Supply and Reduce Costs. OpenAI Considered Building Everything in-House and Raising Capital for an Expensive Plan to Build a Network of Factories Known As "Foundries" for Chip Manufacturing.

The Guardian's satirical cartoon by First Dog on the Moon humorously critiques artificial intelligence (AI), highlighting its potential dangers and absurdities. The artwork underscores concerns about AI's rapid advancement and its possible negative impacts on society. Through wit and irony, it prompts readers to reflect on the ethical and practical implications of AI integration into daily life.

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Security

The New Age of Fraud Detection: AI, Machine Learning, and Cross-Institutional Collaboration

The rise of social engineering attacks poses a major challenge in the fight against fraud. Their sheer scale, speed, and diversity make them incredibly difficult to detect and prevent—and even more so when they originate from the inside.

Healthcare

AI-Based Anomaly Detection for Clinical-Grade Histopathological Diagnostics

While previous studies of artificial intelligence (AI) have shown its potential for diagnosing diseases using imaging data, clinical implementation lags behind. AI models require training with large numbers of examples, which are only available for common diseases. In clinical reality, however, the majority of diseases are less frequent, and current AI models overlook or misclassify them. An effective, comprehensive technique is needed for the full spectrum of real-world diagnoses.

Large Language Models and the Degradation of the Medical Record

Perhaps no artifact of modern medicine has redefined medical practice more than the electronic health record (EHR). Physicians now spend the majority of their time writing and reading notes on the computer, tasks that bleed into “pajama time” and invade what would be time off.

Exclusive: OpenAI Builds First Chip With Broadcom and TSMC, Scales Back Foundry Ambition

OpenAI, the fast-growing company behind ChatGPT, has examined a range of options to diversify chip supply and reduce costs. OpenAI considered building everything in-house and raising capital for an expensive plan to build a network of factories known as "foundries" for chip manufacturing.

PROTEUS: A Prospective RCT Evaluating Use of AI in Stress Echocardiography

Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cardiovascular imaging may potentially augment clinical decision-making in disease management, but no prospective randomized controlled trials have assessed the impact on cardiovascular outcomes. This study evaluates whether AI–augmented decision-making is non-inferior to standard decision-making when selecting participants for invasive coronary angiography following stress echocardiography.

Development

The Environmental Campaigners Fighting Against Data Centres

Environmental campaigner Julie Bolthouse points out that Northern Virginia has the world’s largest concentration of data centres. This is not something she is thrilled about.

“We’re the Wall Street of the data centre industry,” says Ms Bolthouse, who is a director of local Virginian charity and campaign group Piedmont Environmental Council.

Google DeepMind Is Making Its AI Text Watermark Open Source

Google DeepMind Is Making Its AI Text Watermark Open Source. The tool, called SynthID, is part of a larger family of watermarking tools for generative AI outputs. The company unveiled a watermark for images last year, and it has since rolled out one for AI-generated video. In May, Google announced it was applying SynthID in its Gemini app and online chatbots and made it freely available on Hugging Face, an open repository of AI data sets and models. Watermarks have emerged as an important tool to help people determine when something is AI generated, which could help counter harms such as misinformation.

Google CEO Says Over 25% of New Google Code Is Generated by AI

On Tuesday, Google's CEO revealed that AI systems now generate more than a quarter of new code for its products, with human programmers overseeing the computer-generated contributions. The statement, made during Google's Q3 2024 earnings call, shows how AI tools are already having a sizable impact on software development.

Elon Musk Wants You to Submit Medical Data to His AI Chatbot

Billionaire and X owner Elon Musk put out a call on his social media platform Tuesday for people to submit their medical scans to Grok, his AI chatbot. However experts are advising people to use caution when sharing sensitive information to train tech platforms.

Survey

Interview with Liam McCoy on Concerns About the Implementation of Large Language Models in Note Writing and Related Clinical Tasks.

Liam McCoy is a resident physician in neurology at the University of Alberta. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.